Re: [LEAPSECS] UT1 confidence

From: Tony Finch <dot_at_DOTAT.AT>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:49:56 +0000

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>
> : http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/torino/guinot.pdf
>
> I like figure 8, that shows that 20ms steps lead to 50ms steps lead to
> 100ms steps lead to 1s steps. :-)

In the late 1960s some stations broadcast "stepped atomic time" which had
200ms steps (and non-rubber seconds).

Tony.

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